Review of Murder in Old Forge by Brian Kincaid

by Roxanne Baker

In the familiar adage, don’t judge a book by its cover,  I whole-heartedly vouch for Pennsylvania Attorney Brian Kincaid’s Murder in Old Forge Pennsylvania:  The Tragic Death of the Ziemba Children. While the book jacket and soft cover have an amateur look and feel, the writing, in both style and substance, is dynamic and suspenseful.

Kincaid gets away with the magic trick of revealing the killer from the get go, since his recount of the cursed community’s back story is a riveting page turner.  I’m not even a fan of true crime and yet I found myself wanting to scream at the unaware townspeople that the murderer was one of the leaders in the search committee.    

Kincaid gives the court case equal flair with lawyers harboring grudges, small town animosities, and a sociopath on trial.  Finally, the post script of Kincaid’s tangential brush with the case is downright bone chilling.

Murder in Old Forge Pennsylvania’s suspense is so palpable that I only read it during the daylight.